[vlc] Re: Videolan and IPAQ in Multicast

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Bichot Guillaume (Princeton) wrote:
> *One infomation was missing.*
> 
> *I used multicast. *
> 
> *When I use unicast it works (although it is not quite impressive: 
> slow). In multicast it does not work (meaning you can see one video 
> frame if you're lucky and you can hear some noise; that's it). *
> 
> *Any idea why ?*
> 
What is the bitrate of your video stream? I can not be more then ~2 Mbps 
when doing this over a 11 Mbps WLAN.

Greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman.

> ** 
> 
> *Guillaume*
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* Bichot Guillaume (Princeton)
>     *Sent:* Friday, November 22, 2002 8:37 AM
>     *To:* 'vlc at videolan.org'
>     *Subject:* [vlc] Re: Videolan and IPAQ
> 
>     Jean-paul,
>     I'm using a IWWW 802.11b wireless link (at most 6 mbit/s).
>     If I well understood the source file is the problem. I need to find
>     a file around 1,2 mbit/s with a low resolution (320 X 240).
> 
>     Any idea where I could download such file ?
> 
>     Thanks,
>     GUillaume
> 
>      > -----Original Message-----
>      > From: Jean-Paul Saman [mailto:jpsaman at wxs.nl]
>      > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 8:21 AM
>      > To: vlc at videolan.org
>      > Subject: [vlc] Re: Videolan and IPAQ
>      >
>      >
>      > Bichot Guillaume (Princeton) wrote:
>      > > Hi,
>      > >
>      > > I'm testing videolan with the ipaq. I have a server running
>      > in a linux
>      > > host.
>      > > I use multicast and a stream source from either a DVD or a file.
>      > >
>      > Over which kind of network 10Mbps WLAN or 100Mbps LAN ?
>      >
>      > > In the Ipaq (familiar 0.5.3) I use the  VLC version 0.4.4.
>      > >
>      > > When I launch vlc, it is so slow that I can see only one
>      > frame per 10
>      > > seconds. The CPU does not seem overloaded.
>      > >
>      > > Did everyone already try it ?
>      > >
>      > > Is there some stream file more apropriate for the ipaq ?
>      > >
>      >
>      > You should downscale the video size to a more apropriate
>      > size. The iPaq
>      > can only show upto 320x240 size in pixels. Personally I use
>      > files with a
>      > bitrange of 1 to 2 Mbps.
>      >
>      > Greetings,
>      > Jean-Paul Saman.
>      >
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